A Terrifying Glimpse Inside the Mind of the Crypto Market

The crickets are chirping. The last of the stage lights is flickering. And nobody knows how far down in the abyss we may go.

Scott Debevic
7 min readAug 23, 2023

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If I could personify the altcoin market today, I’d describe it as a washed-up fifty-year-old stripper getting thrown quarters for tips while dancing through the buffet day shift. It’s like the Las Vegas casino floor at 5:30 am, long after the late-night partiers have called it a night, and only the degenerates remain playing in a zombified stupor.

No…The crypto market doesn’t look or feel healthy at all. It’s like season 10 of a reality show that should have ended in season 4. Heroes during the throughs of the bull market, like SBF, Alex Mashinsky, and Do Kwon, now await their sentences. But conviction won’t bring back the billions that have been lost.

The crypto market is bad. The NFT market is even worse. At its height, a speculator paid $2.7 million worth of ETH for a Bored Ape Yacht Club. Today they are selling for $35K worth of ETH, and the floor keeps dropping. Liquidations are queued up on lending platforms, seemingly waiting their turn to be auctioned off.

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Scott Debevic

My goal is growing wealth and earning passive income. Mainly focused on Bitcoin and crypto. Feel free to contact me at: scottdebevic@gmail.com